ANNUAL REPORT 2017-2018 PRESENTATION FOR THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING IN LISBON ON 17TH OF MARCH
NELFA HIGHLIGHTS Supporting membership in COFACE Families Europe NELFA delegate Luís Amorim at • the „ Families on th move “ conference, Brussels, May 2017 Strategic meeting July 2017 • Cooperation for ILGA- Europe‘s • Annual Conference in Warsaw Support for COFACES‘s Work-Life- • Balance campaign Participation of COFACE (Paola • Panzeri) at the Lisbon Conference
NELFA HIGHLIGHTS Participation in ILGA Europe‘s Annual Conference in Warsaw Successful workshop on „ freedom • of movement within the EU“ Expertise for a discussion about • surrogacy and different positions Many encounters with activists • from Eastern Europe and the Balkans => new initiative
NELFA HIGHLIGHTS Participation at the Conference on private and family life for LGBTI people “ in Copenhagen co-organised b the Danish • authorities and the Committee on Equality and Non-discrimination of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Moving Speeches of Jesús Santos • and his son Gabriel
NELFA HIGHLIGHTS The successful Erasmus+ project „ Adequate and equal legal protection for rainbow families “ 22 so-called mobilities for NELFA • Board members and active volunteers from France, Italy, Greece, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Finland and Russia Training courses in Copenhagen • and job-shadowings in Berlin (LSVD) and London (Stonewall) Praised by external controllers • and the national agency aef
NELFA HIGHLIGHTS NELFA‘s keynote speeches in Vilnius/Lithuania, Berlin/Germany and at the „ Men Having Babies “ conference in Brussels
NELFA HIGHLIGHTS The 6th International Family Equality Day 2017 and IDAHOT „ Families “ motto: Love makes a family • Celebrated in more than 100 • cities in 44 countries OSIFE grant for NELFA: 25,000 USD • NELFA special event BERLIN •
NELFA HIGHLIGHTS Partner in the international conference „ We should speak out: LGBTI & Family rights “ in Lisbon hosted and organised by NELFA‘s • founding member ILGA Portugal Other partners: ENP, AMPLOS • COFACE participation, video • message of Terry Reintke (Intergroup EP) and testimonies from Eastern Europe/ Balkans PHOTOS: https://we.tl/zaqLB1Erna •
BOARD 2017/18 currently ten members (photo: • Barcelona in June 2017, Giuseppina La Delfa is missing) 13 Board meetings within the last • year, only one face-to-face encounter and several occasions to see some Board members (…) Jordi Anton (FLG, Spain), Caroline • Ausserer (TransInterQueer e.V., Germany), and Juha-Pekka Hippi (Sateenkaariperheet, Finland) announced to step down
BOARD We have four remaining Board members for the next term … Eleni Maravelia (FLG, Spain) • Jesús Santos (Galehi, Spain) • Giovanni Fantoni (Famiglie • Arcobaleno, Italy) Esteban Jiménez (Famiglie • Arcobaleno, Italy) They were elected at our last AGM in Naples. Their mandate ends in 2019.
BOARD We have 7 applicants for the next term – two from the old Board: Dominique Boren (apgl, France) • Giuseppina La Delfa (FA, Italy) • Björn Sieverding (LSVD, Germany) • NEW ARE: Susana Cárdenaz (Galehi, Spain) • Marcos Jornet (SNS, Spain) • Anu Kantola • (Sateenkaariperheet, Finland) Veneta Limberova (Deystvie, • Bulgaria) Daniel Martinovic (Dugine obitelji, • Croatia)
FAREWELL THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR DEDICATION AND WORK FOR NELFA IN THE PAST YEARS!!!!! Jordi Caroline J.-P.
MEMBERS NELFA has currently 24 full members, • we will be 25 when Deystvie, Bulgaria will join us officially in these days NELFA has 5 supporting members • and 1 remaining individual member (Luís Amorim) Our organisations cover 18 • European countries (19 with Deystvie, Bulgaria) NEW in 2017: TGEU • NEW in 2018: TRiP (Poland), Dugine • obiteji (Croatia), Open Mind Spectrum (Albania), Deystvie (Bulgaria) and already announced are Tolerado (Poland)
FINANCES The NELFA Budget is very tight, we even • spent too much in the past (not in terms of needs: Board members pay a large part of the costs on their own! [i.e. travel expenses, little bills etc.) We need to find ways out of the • financial „ limbo “ if we want to establish NELFA as an organisation on EU level – new funding possibilities? POSITIVE: We were able to safe 920 € • out of the Erasmus+ grant NELFA members paid for COFACE fee • (500 € per year) SPECIAL THANKS GO TO: apgl (100 € ), Son Nuestros Hijos (100 € ), Famiglie Arcobaleno (100 € ), Sateenkaariperheet (100 € ) AND LSVD (100 € ). A very positive sign from Germany: LSVD pays the 500 € for 2018!!!!
ADMINISTRATION New registration of the Executive • Board in the „Moniteur Belge “ CRELAN bank – we still are client • as other options won‘t be much more comfortable for us We closed down our • „ Basecamp “, our common working platform is now „ Bitrix “ Our archive is now on „ pcloud “, • we left „Dropbox“ Hostpoint is our website and • NELFA Email provider Our Erasmus+ contact data are • finally changed [ECAS system]
COMMUNICATION MAILING LIST – exchange exists (at • least 28 cases of communiction (but it could be more and new Email required) FACEBOOK: We have 2,029 „ friends “ • (1,837 last year), the most successful pic was Olympic diver Tom Daley with husband and a pic of a baby scan (more than 4,600 people reached), more than 360 posts within a year TWITTER: 457 Follower, 161 Follows, • within a year around 40 posts and over 200 retweets (low level …) NEWSLETTER: 186 subscribers at the • moment, every three months, opening rate: 30-40 %, click rate is low (4-6 percent only)
COMMUNICATION WEBSITE RELAUNCH is planned since • 2016, last works were done in summer 2017 by graphic designer Francesca Silvestri, but she resigned for professional reasons – unfortunately Content must be reviewed and we • need an expert how to make it to our new official website … PRESS RELEASES: 14 within one year • (we had 32 in 2016/17) they were sent out to LGBTIQ* • media and our members and posted on twitter/Facebook
ADVOCACY AND LOBBYING European Families Meeting Rainbow Family Festival on [little] in Berlin (28-29 April) Aeroe Island (19-25 August)
ADVOCACY AND LOBBYING
ADVOCACY AND LOBBYING Board members took part in at least 31 events (conferences, workshops, trainings or simple meetings with politicians, stakeholders etc.!!!
CAPACITY BUILDING – Erasmus+ „ Chances and challenges for rainbow families “ * 22 mobilities (16 training courses on consulting and coaching skills, conflict management etc. with „In Dialogue “ (The Netherlands) as course provider and ILGA-Portugal for the job- shadowing Participants from Eastern Europe and the Balkans (after the East initiative: Main aim: to help NELFA at 2018/19? strengthening its educational work Application is out – decision in May/June
COOPERATION WITH EXTERNAL PARTNERNS COFACE: meeting in Juni, Work- • Life-Balance-campaign in October, ILGA‘s Conference Warsaw, Lisbon Conference EUROPEAN UNION: Contacts to • the EP‘s Intergroup on LGBTI rights (Terry Reintke, co-chair) COUNCIL OF EUROE: • Copenhagen conference in March, possible following meeings with video testimonies ILGA-EUROPE: Capacity building • workshop (Framing) in Brussels, lunch meetings, help in reaching out to new Eastern Europe organisations (or Balkans), strategic exchange today …
UPDATE after the AGM • DEYSTVIE BULGARIA IS A NEW FULL NELFA MEMBER • ALL CANDIDATES FOR THE NEW BOARD WERE APPROVED • JUAN BASTÓN (SON NUESTROS HIJOS, SPAIN) APPLIED FOR THE BOARD AT THE AGM AND WAS ALSO ELECTED • ALL PROVIDED DOCUMENTS WERE APPROVED BY THE AGM 2018 (INCLUDING THE ANNUAL REPORT, FINANCIAL REPORT, BUDGET PROPOSAL AND ACTION PLAN
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION! Your new NELFA Board
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